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Temperate Himalaya ; from Gurwhal, alt. 3-6000 ft. to Sikkim and Bhotan, alt. 

 5-'^000 ft. Burma, East of Bhamo, Kurz. 



A large tree, of brilliant appearance in flower, glabrous except the puberulous 

 young shoots. Leaves 3-5 in,, variable in length and breadth, often doubly serrate, 

 ^!^^^*^^ ^ petiole slender, ^-| in. ; stipules long, subulate, laciniate. Flowers rose 

 red or white, from lateral buds clothed with concave rounded glabrous scales ; pedun-^ 

 «6s ^-1 in,, often subcymose, connate at the base or almost umbellate. Calyx-tube 

 J in., glabrous ; lobes orate, acute, quite entire. Drupe oblong or ellipsoid, obtuse 

 at both ends ; flesh scanty yellow or reddish, acid ; stone bony rugose and furrowed. 

 —Allied to the C. pseudocerasus^ of Japan. In Sikkim the ovary is often (from insect 

 puncture) enlarged into a fusiform pale smooth fleshy body 2 inches long gradually 

 narrowed into the elongate filiform style. 



Sect. TV. Prunus proper. Leaver convolute in bud, appearing after the 

 flowei-s. Floivers solitary or fascicled, Calyx-tuhe short. Dnipe glabrous, 

 usually glaucous. 



6. p. communiSy Huds. ; var. insititia ; shrubby, unarmed or spinous, 

 leaves obovate ovate or o\^te-lanceolate serrulate' obtuse acute or cuspidate, 

 iterves hairy beneath, peduncles solitary or in pairs, calyx-tube obcouic, drupe 

 pobose or ovoid droopinjr. Brand. For. Flor. 192. P. insititia, Linn. ; P. 

 bokhariensis, and P. aloocha, It&yle III 205 (^tmmes only)y 



Western temperate Himalaya; cultivated or indigenous from 

 i^ASHMiR, alt. 5-7000 ft, ('truly wild; T. Thomson). 



-This, Thomson who gathered it in Kashmir, considers to be the common yellow 

 .^''J]|^<^d bullace ; its fruit is eatable, and I see no character whereby to distinguish 

 It from that plant. I have seen no specimens of Eoyle's P. aloocha and bokhariensis, 

 tiut have no reason to doubt that they are referable to this. A dark blue damson, 

 F^Ubly p^ co7nmu7iis, var. dmnestica, and an orange red larger one, are stated by 

 ™^^en (As. Soc. Journ. xvii. part i. 445), to be cultivated about Almorah. 



7. P. trtflora, :Roxh. Hort. Bmg. 38 ; FL hid. ii. 601 {tnfolid) ; shrubby, 

 unw^ed, leaves oblanceolate crenulate shortly acuminate nerves glabrous be* 

 ^^^\ peduncles usually in threes, calyx-tube tui-biuate, drupes ovoid cordiform. 

 ^^rz. For. Flor. Brit. Burm. i. 434 ; Wcdl. Cat 720. 



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A bushy tree, with blacldsh bark, everywhere glabrous. Leaves 2-4 xn., recurved, 

 ,^fldular at the base, equitant in bud; petiole slender; stipules gland-ciiiate. 



'^m small, white, very regularly in threes from the buds ; peduncle A m. 

 lrA\^ longer than the tube, ovate, acute, margins glandular. Petals ^ jn.. 

 ^^ly obovate. Ovary ovoid, stigma large. Drupe purple, glaucous, groov^ on one 

 "««; pulp reddish yellow.— I have taken the characters from Roxburgh and Kurz. 



. Skct. V. laurocerasus. Leaves condupUcate in bud. Floiveis in axil- 

 7 or terminal many-flowered racemes. Cnhjx-tube short, obcomc. Z>rM;>e 

 glaucous or not. 



Lenveg deciduous. 



iU^y **; X»adua, Linn ; leaves oblong-oTwvate or -lanceolate acumiuate, 



Jpy closely serrulate, base rounded or cordate, nerves 10-20 pair, petiole often 



fc»^ , . ' ^cemes elongate pendulous, flowers H '^- diam., stamens u(>40, 



nuT i}""- '^i*'"- globose? stone rugose. Brandis Far, Flor. 194. Oerasus cor- 

 »to, If „fi^ c^ ^jg ^^^ y^^ .^^^^ . ^^^^ jrii 207, t. 38, f. 2. 



•nd^Rf^P^''^^^ Himalava, from Mtibeee, alt. 6-9500. to Sikkim, alt. 8-12,000 ft., 

 ■ ^aoTAN.— DisTHiB. Westward to Great Britain, and Siberia to Karatschatka. 



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